The Wealth of Nations and the Poverty of Theory: IMF, Sri Lanka’s Resource Curse, and Privatization of the Central Bank With the world distracted by kinetic wars in Ukraine and Gaza, a hybrid economic ...

The Tamils have a great culture. One of the best. But that is not found in Jaffna – the so-called heartland of the indigenous Tamils. Though they crow about their culture loudly and interminably, ...

The Standing Orders will be amended and, in terms of Proposal 67/10 now tabled in Parliament, Oversight Committees will be set up comprising members of Parliament who are not in the Cabinet will be ...

In the bustling digital landscape of Sri Lanka, online loans have emerged as a game-changer for countless individuals and businesses seeking quick financial solutions. As this fintech revolution ...

The scandal of Namal Rajapaksa, eldest son of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Member of Parliament, and heir apparent, receiving favoured treatment by the authorities at the Sri Lanka Law College at his ...

“When a court determines any question with respect to … the upbringing of a child … the child’s welfare shall be the court’s paramount consideration.” Ian McEwan on the law, religious freedom and ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the National People’s Power (NPP) was officially invited for a visit by the Indian government at a time when his popularity is unprecedentedly on the rise, due to ...

1953: 70 years ago, a country-wide decentralized movement of civil disobedience, sabotage and satyagraha erupted, known as the Hartal or Varjanaya. Provoked by steeply rising prices of rice, transport ...

Sunday this week marks Sri Lanka’s 76 th independence anniversary. By President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s reckoning another twenty four years will have to go by before Sri Lanka’s economy could fully ...

Temasek Holdings Limited, or simply Temasek, is a Singaporean state holding company 100% owned by the Government of Singapore. Incorporated on 25 June 1974, its net portfolio is US$287 billion as of ...

At a time when the country is getting ready to face a Presidential and or General Election, an opportunity for voters to choose between retaining the old ethnonationalist socio-political system, which ...

Someone asked me; Hon’ Vajira Abeywardena has advised the Tamils not to put forward a Tamil candidate for Presidency and divide their votes. What have you to say? My response was; My friend Hon’ ...